Anyway, if you didn't read Bradbury's book in school (or you skimmed its SparkNotes), Montag eventually meets a free-thinking girl, named Clarisse McClellan, who inspires him to consider what his book-burning is doing to society. Another Michael—Michael Shannon—will play Montag's supervisor, Beatty, who doesn't take too kindly to McClellan's influence over his subordinate.

Considering this adaptation is a TV movie, it's ironic that a sizeable chunk of Bradbury's novel warns against the danger of television programming's capability to ruin people's lives. Director Ramin Bahrani has gone and updated the original story with some internet culture, too, seeing as YouTuber Lilly Singh is set to play a vlogger.

Sofia Boutella and Laura Harrier are also set to star in this true-to-form American horror story.